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Consumers Helped Spur J&J Recall of Children's Medicine

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Ron Winslow And

Avery Johnson

Updated May 3, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

Consumer complaints about certain over-the-counter children's medications spurred an investigation that led to a recall of more than 40 different products because of manufacturing problems, according to officials at a unit of Johnson & Johnson.

The recall, announced over the weekend by the company and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, prompted drug stores and other merchants to pull the medicines off their shelves and caused...